Superconductivity and static moments in LuxZr1-xB12

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Nonmagnetic impurity substitutions impact on superconducting properties in various ways depending on the pair-breaking mechanism. The aim of the proposed experiment is to understand the effect of such substitutions in ZrB12, a dodecaboride superconductor, and to test a recent suggestion [N. E. Sluchanko et al. Phys. Rev. B 93, 085130 (2016)] that static magnetic moments can be induced by non-magnetic impurities. We have carried out some preliminary measurements at PSI which confirm that Lu-substituted ZrB12 is an ideal system to study using muons. Our results show that there is a large change in relaxation rate on entering the superconducting state, pointing to a relatively low penetration depth, making these measurements ideally suited to ISIS where we can, in addition, take advantage of the high data rate.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.84802892
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/84802892
Provenance
Creator Dr Francis Pratt; Dr Sluchanko; Ms Franziska Kirschner; Professor Stephen Blundell; Dr Franz Lang; Professor Tom Lancaster
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-03-25T09:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-03-30T08:30:00Z